Alex Maisel is the Clinical Teaching Fellow in The Bob Parsons Veterans Advocacy Clinic. Prior to joining the UBalt Law faculty, he served as an associate counsel for the Board of Veterans’ Appeals. In this role, he drafted more than 400 appellate decisions for signature by a veterans law judge. Maisel was tasked with reviewing appeals of lower-level benefits decisions for veterans of the armed services and applying a complex and rapidly changing body of law to each veteran’s particular set of facts.
Before embarking on his career in veterans law, Maisel was a member of the Office of General Counsel for the United States Sentencing Commission, which sets national sentencing policy for federal criminal cases. While at the Commission, he co-authored Revocations Among Federal Offenders, a data-driven research publication examining recidivism in the population of federal criminal offenders.
Earlier in his career, he was as an assistant state’s attorney for Baltimore City at the district, juvenile, and felony levels. He holds a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, and an M.A. with first class honors in Continental (contemporary European) Philosophy from University College Dublin.